Spike Video Games Awards 2004

[Ironman273]

If there is a topic about this already, sorry. I searched...

Game of the Year: Grand Theft Auto 3: San Andreas

Best Action Game: Grand Theft Auto 3: San Andreas

Best Driving Game: Burnout 3

Best Fighting Game: Mortal Kombat: Deception

Best First Person Action: Halo 2

Best Game Based on a Movie: Chronicles of Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay

Best Gaming Publication: Game Informer

Best Gaming Website: Gamespot

Best Graphics: Half-Life 2

Best Handheld Game: Metroid: Zero Mission

Best Massive Multiplayer Online Game: City of Heroes

Best Military Game: CoD: Finest Hour

Best New Technology: Nintendo DS

Best PC Game: Half-Life 2

Best Performance by a Human Female: Brooke Burke in Need For Speed Underground 2

Best Performance by a Human Male: Samuel L. Jackson in Grand Theft Auto 3: San Andreas

Best Role-Playing Game: Fable

Best Song in a Game: American Idiot - Green Day, in Madden 2005

Best Soundtrack: Grand Theft Auto 3: San Andreas

Best Sports Game: Madden 2005

Best Wireless Game: Might and Magic

Cyber Vixen of the Year: BloodRayne

Designer of the Year: Jason Jones of Bungie Studios

Most Addictive Game: Burnout 3

Thanks to Gamers Depot for formatting it nicely for me...

[sevastopol]

well, surprise surprise....

Half life 2 only got 2 titles, which still means it beaten Doom3 and farcry!!

GTA: SA won just coz of the massive number of console gamers.

Shame, that HL2 didnt get game of the year. :(

[Somethin Like]

bah!! i hate those awards of course gta: san andreas won because its the one everyone thinks is cool because you can go around and kill people. But the really good games usually don't get anything!

[GrandMaster]

thats retarded, doom3 has much nicer graphics than hl2

[quanta]

Actually I'm okay with GTA:SA being Game of the Year. In terms of sheer length and variety of gameplay, you must admit that San Andreas wins hands down.

Now Best Gaming Website - Shacknews was robbed.

Still, the award ceremony was much, much better than last year. Guess who won GOTY last year? Madden 2004!!

[Billthy]

thats retarded, doom3 has much nicer graphics than hl2

585106731[/snapback]

I disagree with that, the environments in HL2 were top notch and they are ever changing unlike doom where it was basically the same thing over and over (silver room > silver room etc...) Don?t get me wrong Doom III was good but HL2 just crushed it in every way possible

[MytMowse]

It amazes me how GTA games are so "hot" those games are just so freaking boring. I for one despise them games and the game using the gta engine.

The soundtrack for GTA:SA is just terrible too dunno how it won that one.

[CJC]

Yeah I was disappointed with GTA:SA winning. I thought HL2 and Halo 2 were better.

[Kerm]

I disagree with all of those, except HL2 having best graphics.

Buts that's me.

[Ironman273]

Although Doom3 may have had the whole perfect lighting and bump mapping and all that stuff, HL2 seemed more immersive. And like someone mentioned above, although Doom3's one room was pretty, that's pretty much all it was. One room over and over and over and over.....

[bl00dy.1]

Best New Technology: Nintendo DS? cmon. I personally think the DS is retarded... ok dual screens. wooptie doo... *throws finger up in a circle* i dont see the point in have a map on another wasted screen when u can just press a button to bring it up and pause the game... its distracting in my opinion. i voted for the source engine. i know how long an engine takes to create. especially one as detailed as source... *boo* :rolleyes:

[qdave]

stupid gameawards!!! too comercial i would say, and too console orientated :(

[quick]

I played a GTA game one single time and never tried it again.. it was boring and no fun....

Not sure how far they have some since then but... im not impressed

HL2 should have won....

I didn't seem people camping out overnight to get GTA SA.... lol

[Atom]

Anyone who takes that awards show seriously needs to take a long look in the mirror. Its a blatant attempt to capitalize on the growing game industry. I mean they allowed MADDEN NFL 2K4 to win GOTY last year. Granted its a great franchise, it is NO WHERE NEAR GOTY caliber. This show is put on by a bunch of clueless suits who just want the advert money. Please do all of us real gamers a favor and never ever watch its so its ratings bomb and they cancel the whole event. Its a disgrace and embaressment that these are even viewed as a legit source of comparision between games.

[[SST]SLAYER]

Spike awards blow chunks it's decided by people who play mostly console games

THERE IS nothing wrong with console games but...

They should get their heads out of their little narrow minded clicks and consider things like game sales and which games get more chat room and thread times If you think about it the games that sell best are doing so for a reason and why? Well check all the chat forums and find out dont rely on fat bubba down the hall or your cousin Vick who has not moved from his coutch in so long that he has Cheetos stuck to his cheak not that there is anything wrong with Cheetos

But come on! JEESH! :angry:

[stanley porkchop]

These shows go by popularity. It's nothing to get worked up over.

[acertim]

Best Massive Multiplayer Online Game: City of Heroes

Out of all the online games this one got #1? Especially with it's lackluster reviews ... :blink:

[[SST]SLAYER]

These shows go by popularity. It's nothing to get worked up over.

585118837[/snapback]

by popularity? :angry:

Oh you mean popularity of a narrow minded money grubbing few!

I got ya. thanks for clearing that up for me. :crazy:

[dieterich]

Metal Gear Solid 3 got screwed. I quit watching Spike after that. As if GTA is the best that gaming has to offer.....

[stanley porkchop]

They want to have their general audience agree, and they did that. That's what I meant by popularity.

Taking Spike TV's word on video games is like believing I'm the second coming of Jesus.

edit:

GTA:SA is the most popular game on the list. Half Life 2 isn't.

LOL at the comment about considering games' "chat room time" :rofl:

[[SST]SLAYER]

They want to have their general audience agree, and they did that. That's what I meant by popularity.

Taking Spike TV's word on video games is like believing I'm the second coming of Jesus.

edit:

GTA:SA is the most popular game on the list. Half Life 2 isn't.

LOL at the comment about considering games' "chat room time"  :rofl:

585118907[/snapback]

I agree GTA/SA sucks and HL2 should of gotten more awards but the general audience are not real gamers who make up about 80 % of the game sales. The gamers matter more not the TV audience

[stanley porkchop]

I know that. GTA doesn't impress me. Half Life 2 does. Which is why I know that Spike TV's awards are utter bullsh*t.

edit:

Fable got best RPG? Wow.

Against Tales of Symphonia, Star Ocean 3, Megami Tensei, Knights of the Old Republic 2, and Baten Kaitos, Fable won? Wait just a second. Are those guys on crack?

[[SST]SLAYER]

LOL at the comment about considering games' "chat room time"  :rofl:

585118907[/snapback]

well where else should the world gaming comunitee discuss good or bad games in

" Panchos shoe shop?" If a game sucks and we all know some do it will be blasted hot and heavy in a gamers hangout like this one.

[stanley porkchop]

well where else should the world gaming comunitee discuss good or bad games in

" Panchos shoe shop?" If a game sucks and we all know some do it will be blasted hot and heavy in a gamers hangout like this one.

585118952[/snapback]

You might notice most online forums talk about computer games, since, well, they're only accesible from computers. There's no fair way to judge a game's popularity if you look at it that way. Take a look at a poll like this, from an obviously PC-biased web site and compare them to a site like this, which has a little more balance to its fan base.

[stezo2k]

GTA: SA didn't deserve game of the year, personally i would of said HL2 or Halo 2 myself

Glad burnout 3 got awards though, that game is addictive as hell